#AND THEN TAL AND LAURA GAVE US F I V E

[rightpastnowhere]

Vax'ildeux chose his name. You will pry this headcanon from my cold dead hands, Vax'ildeux is trans and he chose his uncle's name on PURPOSE - but he didn't do it recklessly.

He spoke to his mum, obviously, and to his dad, and he had a long sit down conversation with Auntie Keyleth.

There were a lot of tears.

But at the end of it, he had the blessing of all three to go ahead with it. He was always going to be who he knows himself to be, but being able to have the name - that means a lot. It's a weighty name, and it's not one his parents would ever have chosen for him, but the ravens are familiar in Whitestone and he and his siblings get visited with them whenever it's difficult, and the ravens had been persistent when he'd been figuring out himself and what name to take.

He got the feeling his Uncle Vax wanted him to take on the name.

After all, they've got a lot of lost family to honour. He's going to do his damndest to live up to that.

CRIES ?? ?? ? ? ? CRIES BUT HAPPILY ? ? ? ? ?? ? >? >

i love both the cute and hilarious idea of poor vax'ildeux being in the "dead heroes names club" with wilhand'ildan and the absolutely heartbreaking but heartwarming idea of him choosing this name. because i can see vex being so worried about how vax will be remembered - the hero of exandria, the champion of the raven queen, and unfamiliar and impassive mask in temples the world over - and then her child comes up and asks to take his name as a sign of honor, of choice. and she knows that the kids know the vax she wanted to be remembered, both because of how she talks about him, and because of the stupid ravens that are just as annoying as he ever was. and some of that burden lifts from her shoulders

and she knows vax would have crowed (ha) about it endlessly, so fucking proud and supportive of his nephew, which makes vex even MORE emotional about the ordeal

and i am once again crying in this chili's